This book is a presentation of the dialects of the Swedish province of Bohuslän in western Sweden. It contains 22 taped samples of spoken dialect from the middle of this century of a length ranging from 1'30'' up to 4'45''.

The dialect examples are chosen from different parts of the province and are presented in readable form together with a written explanatory commentary, as well as in audible form on the CD that accompanies the book.

The book also contains 12 samples of written dialect from different written sources, which are also presented together with a written commentary. One part of the book consists of a more general popular description of the dialects of Bohuslän.

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Löfdahl, Maria

Institute for Language and Folklore, Department of Dialectology, Onomastics and Folklore Research, Gothenburg.

This book is a presentation and a linguistic interpretation of the place-names of the district of Tanum in the former County of Gothenburg and Bohus in western Sweden. The studied names consist of names of lakes, rivers, islands, mountains etc., of different units of cultivated land and of other entities such as bridges and roads. Dialect pronunciations and earlier name forms found in various sources are presented to the reader. Several of these names designate localities that cannot be identified today but were once part of an ancient name-landscape. A large number of dialect words are also presented.

This book also contains two essays. The first essay discusses the series Ortnamnen i Göteborgs och Bohus län with an emphasis on its design, its methods of interpretation and its theoretical approach. The second essay discusses the topographical designations berg, fjäll, hog, kulle and ås in their functions as appellatives and as place-name elements. Potential similarities and differences between the two systems are discussed.

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Löfdahl, Maria

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Institute for Language and Folklore, Department of Dialectology, Onomastics and Folklore Research, Gothenburg.